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Portrayed by Leonardo DiCaprio in the Martin Scorsese movie The Aviator, Howard Hughes is legendary as a playboy and pilotâ but he is notorious for what he became: the ultimate mystery man. Citizen Hughes is the New York Times bestselling exposé of Hughesâ s hidden life, and a stunning revelation of his â megalomaniac empire in the emperorâ s own wordsâ (Newsweek).
At the height of his wealth, power, and invisibility, the worldâ s richest and most secretive man kept what amounted to a diary. The billionaire commanded his empire by correspondence, scrawling thousands of handwritten memos to unseen henchmen. It was the only time Howard Hughes risked writing down his orders, plans, thoughts, fears, and desires. Hughes claimed the papers were so sensitiveâ â the very most confidential, almost sacred information as to my innermost activitiesâ â that not even his most trusted aides or executives were allowed to keep the messages he sent them. But in the early-morning hours of June 5, 1974, unknown burglars staged a daring break-in at Hughesâ s supposedly impregnable headquarters and escaped with all the confidential files. Despite a top-secret FBI investigation and a million-dollar CIA buyback bid, none of the stolen secret papers were ever foundâ until investigative reporter Michael Drosnin cracked the case.
In Citizen Hughes, Drosnin reveals the true story of the great Hughes heistâ and of the real Howard Hughes. Based on nearly ten thousand never-before-published documents, more than three thousand in Hughesâ s own handwriting, Citizen Hughes is far more than a biography, or even an unwilling autobiography. It is a startling record of the secret history of our times.
At the height of his wealth, power, and invisibility, the worldâ s richest and most secretive man kept what amounted to a diary. The billionaire commanded his empire by correspondence, scrawling thousands of handwritten memos to unseen henchmen. It was the only time Howard Hughes risked writing down his orders, plans, thoughts, fears, and desires. Hughes claimed the papers were so sensitiveâ â the very most confidential, almost sacred information as to my innermost activitiesâ â that not even his most trusted aides or executives were allowed to keep the messages he sent them. But in the early-morning hours of June 5, 1974, unknown burglars staged a daring break-in at Hughesâ s supposedly impregnable headquarters and escaped with all the confidential files. Despite a top-secret FBI investigation and a million-dollar CIA buyback bid, none of the stolen secret papers were ever foundâ until investigative reporter Michael Drosnin cracked the case.
In Citizen Hughes, Drosnin reveals the true story of the great Hughes heistâ and of the real Howard Hughes. Based on nearly ten thousand never-before-published documents, more than three thousand in Hughesâ s own handwriting, Citizen Hughes is far more than a biography, or even an unwilling autobiography. It is a startling record of the secret history of our times.
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- PublisherArrow Books
- Publication date1986
- ISBN 10 0099453401
- ISBN 13 9780099453406
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages603
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CITIZEN HUGHES
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